YOG-MONSTER FROM SPACE (1970) see Kessen
Nankai No DaikaijuYOKAI DAISENSO (1968/Daiei) 79mins.
Japan.
Aka: GHOSTS ON PARADE.
Credits: Dir: Yoshiyuki Kuroda; Sc: Tetsuro Yoshida;
Ph: Hiroshi Imai; Art: Seiichi Ota & Shigeru Kato; Mus: Shigeru Ikeno.
Cast: Yoshihiko Aoyama, Akane Kawasaki, Osamin Okawa,
Tamoo Uchida, Hajme Kimuru.
A governor of Izu Province is possessed by the Daimon, a blood-sucking Babylonian demon.
The creature is eventually destroyed by an assortment of monsters and a water spirit.
YONGARY-MONSTER FROM THE DEEP (1967) see Daikoesu
Yongkari
YOKAI HYAKU MONOGATARI (1968/Daiei) 79mins. Japan.
Aka: ONE HUNDRED GHOST STORIES.
Credits: Dir: Kimiyoshi Yasuda; Sc: Tetsuo Yoshida;
Ph: Yasukazu Takemura; Art: Yoshinobu Nishioka & Shigeru Katôp; Mus: Chûmei
Watanabe.
Cast: Jun Fujimaki, Miwa Takada, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Takashi Kanda, Ryûtarô Gomi,
Yoshio Yoshida.
A greedy and vicious merchant is tormented and killed at a brothel by hundreds of strange
ghosts including the long necked Rokuro-kubbi, the featureless face of the Napperabo, and
a one legged, umbrella shaped Karakasa.
YOSEI GORASU (1962/Toho/Columbia) Japan.
Aka: GORATH.
Credits: Dir: Inoshiro Honda; Sc: Takeshi Kimura; Sfx:
Eiji Tsuburaya.
Cast: Ryo Ikebe, Jun Tazaki, Akiko Hirata, Haruo
Nakajima.
"See the world doomed by an invading wild sun 6000 times bigger than
Earth!"
A giant meteor named Gorath is on a collision course with earth, so scientists construct
huge rockets at the South Pole and gently shift earth out of the way. However, the ice cap
melts and releases a giant walrus creature that attacks the rocket installation. To nudge
the earth back to its original orbit and avoid natural disaster, the monster must be
destroyed.
The monster walrus played by Nikajima is cut from American prints.
YOTSUYA KAIDAN-OIWA NO BOREI (1969/Daiei) 94mins. Japan.
Credits: Dir: Issei Mori; Sc: Kinya Naoi; Art: Seiichi
Takeda; Mus: Ichiro Saito. From a story by Nanboku Tsuruya.
Cast: Kei Sato, Kazuko Inano, Yoshihiko Aoyama, Kyoko
Mikage, Shoji Kobayashi.
In medieval Japan a man’s ghost has revenge.
YOUNG AND EVIL (1956) see Yambao
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974/Gruskoff/Venture/Crossbow/TCF) 108mins. BW. US.
Credits: Dir: Mel Brooks; Prod: Michael Gruskoff; Sc:
Gene Wilder & Mel Brooks; Ph: Gerald Hirschfeld; Ed: John Howard; Art: Dale Hennessy;
Sfx: Hal Millar & Henry Millar Jr.; Mu: William Tuttle; Mus: John Morris.
Cast: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris
Leachman, Teri Garr, Ann Beesley, Kenneth Mars, Oscar Beregi, Madeline Kahn, Leon Askin,
Gene Hackman, Liam Dunn, Danny Goldman, Richard Hayden, Rusty Blitz, Monty Landis, Lou
Cutell, Richard Roth.
The American grandson of Baron Frankenstein, Frederick, (Wilder), denies his infamous
ancestry until he is told by an old family retainer, (Haydn), that he has inherited the
Baron's estate in Transylvania. At the castle he discovers his grandfather's secret
formula and with the aid of Inga, (Garr), and his hunchbacked manservant Ygor, (Feldman),
he makes his own monster, (Boyle). The monster escapes, meets a blind hermit, (Hackman),
and finds love from Frankenstein's fiance, (Kahn).
This earnest homage to the early Frankenstein films is given the Brooks treatment, but
despite the juvenile humour there are many moments to treasure, heightened by the
monochrome photography that manages to capture the atmosphere of the original films. The
laboratory sets were the same ones used in THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) designed by
Kenneth Strickfaden.
THE YOUNG JACOBITES (1959/Rayant Pics.) Serial. 8 Episodes. (126 mins.) UK.
Credits: Dir: John Reeve; Prod: Anthony Gilkinson; Sc:
Paul Tabori & Gordon Wellesley; Ph: Geoffrey Gurrin; Ed: John Reeve & Kevin
Connor; Art: J. Elder-Willis; Musa: Albert Elms & David Woolridge.
Cast: Francesca Annis, Jeremy Bullock, Frazer Hines,
John Pike, Gareth Tandy, John Woodnut, Michael O’Brien, David Stuart, Michael
Nightingale.
A mysterious "threshold stone" transports several children two hundred years
into the past where they help Bonnie Prince Charlie.
THE YOUNG, THE EVIL AND THE SAVAGE (1968) see Sette
Vergini Per il Diavolo
YOUR TEETH ARE IN MY NECK (1966) see Dance of the
Vampires
